What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Vehicle Architecture Consultant - Heavy Duty Trucks position at Belcan, LLC?
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Job Title: Senior Vehicle Architecture Consultant - Heavy Duty Trucks Location: Greensboro, NC (onsite) Zip Code: 27409 Pay Rate: $45 - $55/hr. (DOE) Job Type: Contract (4-Month Consulting Assignment) Schedule: Monday - Friday Keyword's: #Greensborojobs; #RecruitmentCoordinatorjobs; Start Date: Immediate We provide a competitive pay and benefits package. This position is offering a pay range of $45 - $55/hr. however, Belcan considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to education, experience, geographic location, and discipline. Benefits offered may include health care, dental, vision, life insurance; 401(k); education assistance; paid time off including PTO, holidays, and any other paid leave required by law. Job Summary: A Senior Vehicle Architecture Consultant - Heavy Duty Trucks job in Greensboro, NC is currently accepting applications. This is a four-month consulting assignment with a leading commercial vehicle manufacturer. In this role, you will lead an engineering pre-study focused on evaluating how an existing advanced vehicle architecture can be optimized, reused, and expanded across future heavy-duty conventional and cab-over truck platforms. You will provide strategic engineering recommendations that reduce development risk, improve scalability, and accelerate time-to-market for future vehicle programs. To be considered for this opportunity, you should have extensive experience in heavy-duty vehicle architecture, systems engineering, or whole-vehicle integration, along with a strong understanding of truck platform development. Senior Vehicle Architecture Consultant Job Responsibilities: * Lead a strategic engineering assessment of an existing heavy-duty vehicle architecture for future conventional and cab-over truck applications. * Evaluate opportunities for architecture reuse, carry-over components, delta-part strategies, and system integration improvements. * Analyze the impact of vehicle configuration changes on packaging, wheelbase, payload, fuel efficiency, maneuverability, and overall vehicle performance. * Develop and compare future base vehicle configurations while recommending a scalable architecture strategy. * Assess the feasibility of applying the architecture to cab-over truck platforms, including structural considerations, auxiliary systems, packaging, and feature integration. * Perform sensor integration studies, including sensor placement concepts and field-of-view analysis. * Identify technical risks, engineering assumptions, dependencies, and implementation challenges while developing mitigation strategies. * Prepare comprehensive engineering analyses, strategic recommendations, and executive-level presentations to support leadership decision-making. * Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Vehicle Engineering, Platform Engineering, Systems Engineering, Product Development, and Program Management. * Lead complex engineering initiatives while providing technical guidance and mentoring to team members when appropriate. * Support long-term product architecture planning, manufacturing strategy, platform strategy, and product roadmap development. * Drive engineering decisions that balance cost, complexity, performance, quality, and time-to-market objectives. Senior Vehicle Architecture Consultant Job Qualifications: * Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related engineering discipline. Advanced degree is a plus. * 8 years of experience in vehicle architecture, systems engineering, product development, or whole-vehicle integration within the heavy-duty truck industry. * Strong understanding of conventional and cab-over commercial truck platforms. * Experience with vehicle architecture development, carry-over planning, component reuse strategies, and delta-part analysis. * Knowledge of vehicle packaging, structural integration, sensor placement, field-of-view analysis, and systems integration. * Experience leading complex engineering projects from concept through strategic recommendation. * Ability to translate technical findings into business-focused recommendations involving cost, risk, complexity, and implementation timelines. * Strong analytical, problem-solving, and systems-thinking skills. * Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience presenting technical recommendations to executive leadership. * Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams and collaborate across engineering organizations. * Experience developing long-term product roadmaps, platform strategies, or vehicle architecture strategies is highly preferred. * Experience within the commercial vehicle, heavy-duty truck, or automotive manufacturing industry is required. * Previous consulting experience or leading engineering feasibility studies is a plus. Belcan is an equal opportunity employer. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, colour, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Job Title: Senior Vehicle Architecture Consultant - Heavy Duty Trucks Location: Greensboro, NC (onsite) Zip Code: 27409 Pay Rate: $45 - $55/hr. (DOE) Job Type: Contract (4-Month Consulting Assignment) Schedule: Monday - Friday Keyword's: #Greensborojobs; #RecruitmentCoordinatorjobs; Start Date: Immediate We provide a competitive pay and benefits package. This position is offering a pay range of $45 - $55/hr. however, Belcan considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to education, experience, geographic location, and discipline. Benefits offered may include health care, dental, vision, life insurance; 401(k); education assistance; paid time off including PTO, holidays, and any other paid leave required by law. Job Summary: A Senior Vehicle Architecture Consultant - Heavy Duty Trucks job in Greensboro, NC is currently accepting applications. This is a four-month consulting assignment with a leading commercial vehicle manufacturer. In this role, you will lead an engineering pre-study focused on evaluating how an existing advanced vehicle architecture can be optimized, reused, and expanded across future heavy-duty conventional and cab-over truck platforms. You will provide strategic engineering recommendations that reduce development risk, improve scalability, and accelerate time-to-market for future vehicle programs. To be considered for this opportunity, you should have extensive experience in heavy-duty vehicle architecture, systems engineering, or whole-vehicle integration, along with a strong understanding of truck platform development. Senior Vehicle Architecture Consultant Job Responsibilities: * Lead a strategic engineering assessment of an existing heavy-duty vehicle architecture for future conventional and cab-over truck applications. * Evaluate opportunities for architecture reuse, carry-over components, delta-part strategies, and system integration improvements. * Analyze the impact of vehicle configuration changes on packaging, wheelbase, payload, fuel efficiency, maneuverability, and overall vehicle performance. * Develop and compare future base vehicle configurations while recommending a scalable architecture strategy. * Assess the feasibility of applying the architecture to cab-over truck platforms, including structural considerations, auxiliary systems, packaging, and feature integration. * Perform sensor integration studies, including sensor placement concepts and field-of-view analysis. * Identify technical risks, engineering assumptions, dependencies, and implementation challenges while developing mitigation strategies. * Prepare comprehensive engineering analyses, strategic recommendations, and executive-level presentations to support leadership decision-making. * Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Vehicle Engineering, Platform Engineering, Systems Engineering, Product Development, and Program Management. * Lead complex engineering initiatives while providing technical guidance and mentoring to team members when appropriate. * Support long-term product architecture planning, manufacturing strategy, platform strategy, and product roadmap development. * Drive engineering decisions that balance cost, complexity, performance, quality, and time-to-market objectives. Senior Vehicle Architecture Consultant Job Qualifications: * Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related engineering discipline. Advanced degree is a plus. * 8 years of experience in vehicle architecture, systems engineering, product development, or whole-vehicle integration within the heavy-duty truck industry. * Strong understanding of conventional and cab-over commercial truck platforms. * Experience with vehicle architecture development, carry-over planning, component reuse strategies, and delta-part analysis. * Knowledge of vehicle packaging, structural integration, sensor placement, field-of-view analysis, and systems integration. * Experience leading complex engineering projects from concept through strategic recommendation. * Ability to translate technical findings into business-focused recommendations involving cost, risk, complexity, and implementation timelines. * Strong analytical, problem-solving, and systems-thinking skills. * Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience presenting technical recommendations to executive leadership. * Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams and collaborate across engineering organizations. * Experience developing long-term product roadmaps, platform strategies, or vehicle architecture strategies is highly preferred. * Experience within the commercial vehicle, heavy-duty truck, or automotive manufacturing industry is required. * Previous consulting experience or leading engineering feasibility studies is a plus. Belcan is an equal opportunity employer. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, colour, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Salary : $45 - $55